Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cyrus, Lucille Gray, 1972 

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LUCILLE GRAY CYRUS

   BOYKINS - Funeral services for Mrs. Lucille Gray Cyrus, 55, who died 
Saturday at Southampton Memorial Hospital, were conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. 
in the McDowell Funeral Home, Boykins, with the Rev. Harry Bunch, pastor of 
the Newsoms United Methodist Church officiating.  Burial was in the Newsoms 
Cemetery.

   Mrs. Cyrus was a native of Southampton County and was a daughter of 
Richard Percy and Mrs. Mary Ferguson Gray.  She was the wife of Earl Talmadge 
Cyrus.  She was a member of the Newsoms Baptist Church.

   Besides her husband, she is survived by a son, Richard Earl Cyrus of Seal 
Unit #2 U.S. Navy, Norfolk; three sisters, Mrs. Nellie Mack and Mrs. Evelyn 
Ferguson of Newsoms and Mrs. Edith Forrest of Franklin; four brothers, Edward 
Gray of Norfolk, Clyde Gray of Chuckatuck, Hubert Gray of Emporia, and Thomas 
Gray of Windsor; and one granddaughter.

   Pallbearers were Carl Thorpe, Morris Worrell, Larry Gray, Russell Ferguson, 
Ralph Ivey, Willie Ivey, Calvin Gray, and Ben DeLozier.


Lucille (GRAY; Mrs. Earl T.) CYRUS, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 29 Jul 1972, Franklin, age 55, 
interred in Hollywood Cemetery*, Newsoms, 2 Aug 1972, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 7, 1972, A-3 

*Her parents are buried there also. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Hollywood list (N-21 & -38): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt 


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